First Fifteen
How you start the day sets the course and tone for the rest of the day. Spend your first fifteen minutes of the day listening to God and responding in a personal way. This podcast will show you how and teach you in an easy to follow process.If you are getting started in a relationship with God, trying to have a quiet time or seeking guidance at this point in your life, you're in the right place.In fifteen minutes (or less) you will listen to God's word for you, reflect on it and learn to pray to God as well as carry that word with you through the rest of your day. What a perfect way to get started!Get started listening and subscribe to this podcast to hear more from God's word and grow in your relationship.Additional resources at https://word-of-prayer.com
Episodes
Israel was unique in the ancient world, but they often struggled with their God who made them unique, and that power struggle is a feature of every person's story. The central question is: Who will be king? 1 Samuel 8 is more than a story about how Israel gets a king. It's about how they displace the King they already had.
Season five is focused on listening to and praying Bible narratives. In our podcast we t...
The eyes are a window to the heart. Unless we're striving to do what is right in God's eyes, things are not going to go well for us! That's the message in the book of Judges as part of our series on praying Bible stories.
Season five is focused on listening to and praying Bible narratives. In our podcast we take time to listen to God's word and turn it into prayer.
We listen to part of Judges...
What is the secret to standing strong in faith? We see a specific truth about that in the book of Joshua.
Season five is focused on listening to and praying Bible stories or narratives. In our podcast we take time to listen to God's word and turn it into prayer.
We look at four readings from the book of Joshua that tell the story of Israel entering into the land God promised them.
First there is a...
The Psalms lead us in prayer and teach us to pray. Listen to Psalm 2 and pray along with it.
Want a fuller devotional based on Psalm 2? Listen to it here in season 3 episode 3 of our podcast.
In our regular podcast you can listen to God's word for you, reflect on it and learn to pray to God as well as carry that word with you through the rest of your day. It's a perfect way to get started! Enjoy listeni...
The Psalms lead us in prayer and teach us to pray. Listen to Psalm 1 and pray along with it.
Want a fuller devotional based on Psalm 1? Listen to it here in the pilot episode of our podcast.
In our regular podcast you can listen to God's word for you, reflect on it and learn to pray to God as well as carry that word with you through the rest of your day. It's a perfect way to get started! Enjoy listeni...
God gave the Law to Moses at Mount Sinai. So why did Moses repeat the law again to the children of Israel in Moab 40 years later? We find out in today's episode.
Season five is focused on listening to and praying Bible stories or narratives. In our podcast we take time to listen to God's word and turn it into prayer.
We aren't looking at any specific laws in this episode. Instead we consider the st...
In the wilderness is where God leads, provides, judges and forgives. God gives the Law and tests his people in the wilderness. After Genesis (actually Exodus 13) all of the the action in the next four books of the Torah/Pentateuch happens in the wilderness. Today’s episode is one story from the wilderness that shows God's nature, the people's failure and how to pray in the midst of this.
Season five is focused ...
Jesus spent time in Africa as a baby, and when the time was full scripture says, "Out of Egypt I called my son." The meaning of that phrase has a deep resonance that reaches back to the prophets (especially Hosea) and then further back to the prophet Moses. One of the great stories of the Bible is how God's people came to live in Egypt, slide into slavery and oppression, then see a mighty deliverance from Egypt by ...
How do you deal with someone who is slippery? You're not sure you are getting the full story from them or they seem to have other motives or intentions. Some people are pretty good at plotting and planning and getting the better side of a bargain. This might even describe you! One of those people in the Bible is a man named Jacob. Today’s episode is How Jacob became Israel.
Season five is focused on listening to an...
In season five we're learning to listen to and pray Bible stories or narratives. In our podcast we take time to listen to God's word, reflect on it and then pray it back to...
When things are going well people sometimes say “I have been so blessed!” Before the blessing comes, though, how do you act, how do you talk, how do you behave? How we act before we receive the blessing shows something revealing about our character.
In season five we're learning to listen to and pray Bible stories or narratives. In our podcast we take time to listen to God's word, reflect on it and then pra...
Stories draw us in. It's hard to resist listening to a good story that is well told. Stories hold our interest. What's less obvious is that stories shape us, inspire us and teach us important truths. There is great untapped power in the stories of the Bible. As we learn to pray them we can grow closer to God and experience a growing faith too.
In season five we're learning to listen to and pray Bible stor...
What's the tallest building you've ever seen up close? In Genesis 11 there was a city and a people who decided to build a tower to heaven. Why they did it and what it meant has a deeper meaning than just a story with a moral about towering pride.
In season five we're learning to listen to and pray Bible stories or narratives. We started in the middle of the story at 1 Samuel 1-3 before turning to beginni...
The Great Flood and Noah’s Ark is a universal story, a familiar tale to many people regardless of their background or religion. In the story of the Bible it is a prominent marker on the path that shows us what God is up to in the world. It also tells us a lot about humans.
In season five we're learning to listen to and pray Bible stories or narratives. In Genesis 1-2 we heart about God creating the world in an orde...
“Live long and prosper.” The line from Star Trek’s character Spock is a sentiment common to all human cultures. Most people who enjoy any kind of quality of life desire to have a long life. What the Bible says about that challenges our common assumptions.
In season five we're listening to Bible stories and learning to pray them. We started in the middle of things with the beginnings of the story of Samuel before t...
Murder. Intrigue. Outrageous behavior. Those sound like elements of a crime story. It’s actually part of the story in the first book of the Bible, Genesis 4.
In season five we're listening to Bible stories and learning to pray them. We started in the middle of things with the beginnings of the story of Samuel before turning back to the very start with creation and how the first couple chose to go their own way, t...
Most good stories have a strong visual component, and the stories of creation and beginnings in Genesis 1-3 are no different. In this conversation we explore how the first couple is portrayed imaginatively in art as an extended meditation on the imagery of creation and the fall.
In season five we're learning to pray the most common type of scripture: narrative or stories. They make up almost half of the Bible so ...
The goodness of creation and the close relationship that man and woman shared with God gets severely tested and ultimately changed because of a series of decisions. Genesis 3 takes us from the ideal state of "everything was good" to a serious rupture in the relationship. What happened? Is there any hope?
In season five we're listening to Bible stories and learning to pray them. Our focus today is the...
If "In the beginning" is the perfect way to start a story of creation, why not have a flashback and tell the story again but with a close-up camera angle? That's what Genesis 2 does, touching on some of the common themes already introduced, but advancing the plot and conflict further by zooming in on the human scale of things in a garden.
In season five we're listening to Bible stories and learning ...
"In the beginning" seems like the perfect way to start a story, even better than "once upon a time". This is especially so if we're telling a true story about things that really happened that answers some of our deepest, most basic questions about where we came from and our place in the world. In today's episode we are reading Genesis 1 together and going back to the beginning.
In season f...
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